Bon Jovi To Play Rock in Rio 2017

Just Announced! Bon Jovi will perform at the 2017 Rock in Rio music festival in Brazil on September 22, 2017!

This will be the sixth time the band has come to Brazil, but the first opportunity for fans there to hear music from their brand new #1 album, THIS HOUSE IS NOT FOR SALE, which has received rave reviews around the world.

Rock in Rio Brazil 2017 will take place on September 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23 and 24, at the City of Rock, in Barra da Tijuca. Tickets will be available April 2017.

I’m really happy, I love the band more than anything … I’m crying so far with the news! A unique opportunity, I’m from Brazil and I can not wait for September! I am very happy, finally I will be able to see my great love up close!

Ps: To the people who are reading this letter, please, lead it to the Jon’s hands. I’m begging you!!!
I don’t know if this letter will get in your hands, if you’re gonna read it and if i’ll have an answer. But life have taught me, that we should try witht all strenght we have inner us. And believe. Believe at every single moment till the end of our lifes. And also have love inside our hearts, doing whay it says for us to do, and at the end, everthing’s gonna be ok.
Well, let me introduce myself: My name is Rafaela Fernanda Belém. I’m 31, brazilian and I have a beautiful story, wich I’d like you and the band get to know.
I was born premature (seven months), and after few hours I’ve had a respiratory failure. It have affected an specifc part of my brain wich is responsable for my equilibrium. So, I just can walk and be stand on my feet using a support.
I think you’re wondering “Where am I in it?” I’ll tell you.
When I was 5 I’ve known you and the band because my Mom used to listening to your songs a lot, and since it, I’ve never stoped listening to you.
My way until today wans’t easy: To listen from the doctors that my case’s irreversible, a bunch of surgeries, treatments… but all the strenght to go through it all came from Bon Jovi.
I can’t count how many times I was in hospitals waiting for surgeries and listening to you singing! And it always made me (and still does) stronger to face it all. You were with me all the time ( my first kiss, my school graduation, my College graduation, my fisrt job). Always, in every situation, every moment.
Backing when I was a child, 10 years old specifically, I’ve made myself a promisse: “One day, if I have enough money and physical conditions, I’ll go to a Bon Jovi’s concert”
And in 2010, my dream came true, in São Paulo, The Circle Tour!!!! I did all that I could ( and couldn’t) to go, and it was just amazing, perfect… Especially when the band played “These Days”, my favorite one. I’ve cried like a baby, and can explain how happy I was feeling. Unbelievable!!!!
In 2013, Because We Can Tour, and I was there again!
Each one has your own beliefes, religions and find your own
way to reach your goals, to find the nescessery strenght to go ahead in life. Mine strenght called BON JOVI!
In each concert I’ve gone, I came back stonger, more confident and feeling better.
Now, in 2017, I’ll just can go to your concert if Bon Jovi play in São Paulo, because this city is not so far from mine, and then will be possible to me.
My friends use to ask me how would be my reaction if , one day, I have a chance to know you personally. And my answer is: “I think, I’ll be so excited, that maybe I would let my walker beside and run to hug them !!!!!
I’m your fan, and really woul’d like to see you face to face. Just tem minutes woul’d be enough for me. Just to see your face, your smile. And I pray for God every night to this opportunity.
Despite my limitatios, I’m a very happy person an this is just what’s missing (a tiny detail) to my life became better than it is.If you just read my letter, I’ll be glad but, to hug you is my life’s dream!
Finally Jon, I’d like to thank you for everything: for your smile, your voice, for wipe my tears away and hold my hand everytime I’ve thought giving up.
I’m waiting for your answer and hope to see you in São Paulo. Preferably personally!!!
Bye for now!!
With love . Rafa!